Norm reasoning services

Abstract

Norms are used in open Multi-Agent Systems as a formal specification of deontic statements aimed at regulating the actions of agents and the interactions among them. In this paper, we propose a set of services facilitating the development of both non-normative and normative agents for norm-governed MAS. Specifically, we propose to provide agents with norm reasoning services. These services will help agent designers/developers to programme agents that consider norm reasoning without having to implement the needed mechanisms to reason about norms by themselves. This article shows how these services perform as well as the results of the experiments that we conducted to evaluate their performance.

Advances in infrastructures and tools for multiagent systems

“…Specifically focused on the construction of open systems composed by norm-aware agents, the paper "Norm reasoning services" (Criado et al 2014) provides a range of services for allowing the development of non-normative and normative agents. These services inform about the norms that are in force at a given moment in order to allow agents to reason about them.…”